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Here we go…THE FINALE OF TWO WORLDS, ONE SOUL! Yes folks, it's the episode you've all been waiting for, the death of Orois! (Cheers) Well, what am I keeping you waiting for? Let's go!
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Two Worlds, One Soul
Chapter XII – Final Round…Fight
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At first, he was only aware of the anguish, the pain, and a burning rage, slowly growing to white-hot intensity. As a single spark grows into a raging inferno, one thought grew stronger and more forceful in his mind. Orois will pay for putting me through this hell again and again. He will pay. He MUST pay! He repeated this like a mantra, over and over as the vision began again.
Suddenly, all the colors of the world began to liquefy and run together, as if he was looking at the scene before him through a rain-soaked window. The colors ran more and more, slowly darkening as they faded to black. Am I…dying? He asked himself. The sounds of the world were interrupted by the sharp hiss of gas escaping high pressure and the clank and scrape of moving metal. He opened his eyes to light, which was odd, because he never remembered closing them. An odd fog obscured this new world. He could make out a fuzzy blob of brown and red on a black background with other shapes moving behind the red, but the details were hidden. Is this some new vision? He asked himself in confusion. Suddenly, the fog lifted, removed in a sheet by red-gloved hands. A faceplate. He realized. Then the plate was lowered and Kratos found himself staring into the face of his son.
"Lloyd…" Kratos murmured.
"Dad…" said Lloyd. Kratos was slightly taken aback by the fierce expression smoldering in his son's eyes, but he remained silent.
"Wait! The teleportation! Get back!" cried Kratos, forcefully shoving his son out of harm's way.
Moments passed. Nothing happened.
"…" said Lloyd.
"…?" said Kratos, raising an eyebrow to accentuate his needless question.
"Odd…shouldn't we had warped or something?" said Kyle.
"My guess is that it hasn't recharged enough to send twelve people a fair distance again so quickly." Said Raine from the background.
"Oh! Mr. Kratos! I'm so glad to see you're all right!" chirped Colette, wearing her trademark big-eyed grin.
"You are all right, ne?" asked Sheena.
Kratos took a moment to consider this. "Yes, Sheena, if you would call a forced reliving of your darkest hour over and over again 'all right'."
"Dad, I know how you feel." Said Lloyd. Kratos noted that the determination in his eyes sparked brighter when he said this.
"What did you see?" he asked.
"Iselia."
Kratos nearly winced. That had almost broken Lloyd when it first happened, he could not imagine what it would feel like run through over and over again.
Lloyd interrupted his thoughts. "What did he show you?"
Kratos sat up, and with Lloyd's assistance, sprang off the chain onto the steely floor. "Anna." He said. Lloyd could swear that he saw a flash of anger in his father's eyes, but it was swiftly gone.
Lloyd did wince. He knew how painful it had been for himself to kill someone he barely knew, but to see yourself kill your own wife, again and again and again…
"Dad. You know what he's trying to do to us, right?"
"If you mean torture us so horribly in our minds that our bodies will be unable to fight, then yes, I do." Kratos' eyes flared with that terrible anger again. "And I have no intention of letting him get away with his mind games. I've got two scores to settle with him now." The cold fury of his words seemed to chill the very air around him.
"Well, this should prove interesting." Said Regal, an expression that was almost a smirk appeared on his face.
"Not only have his underhanded tactics failed, they have only enflamed the anger and increased the determination of those he tried to demoralize." Said Presea, whose face showed no emotion.
"Now he's going to have to deal with seven seasoned combat veterans, three inexperienced but resourceful terrans, and two angels of retribution who're pissed as hell." Said Aaron, grinning widely.
"So what do you say?" said Sam, flourishing her garden tool. "Let's go kick some bad-guy butt!"
"All for complete and total, full-out ass-kicking, say 'Aye'" said Zelos. Fifteen leathal devices of all descriptions were thrust into the air as fifteen voices cried 'AYE!'
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All right, I'm sorry for stopping it here, but I've just left for a beach vacation and I'm not going to feel like writing anything for a while. Didn't want to leave you with nothing for a week and a half after the huge delays that I've made you sit through with no word from me. I'll finish it up when I get back Until then, See Ya!
